The Annapolis Book of Seamanship
Fourth Edition
John Rousmaniere
Since the publication of the widely hailed first edition in 1983, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship has set the standard by which other books on sailing are measured. Used throughout America as a textbook in sailing schools and Power Squadrons, this book clearly covers the fundamental and advanced skills of modern sailing. This edition of Annapolis is a major overhaul. Over half the book has been revised; old topics and features have been updated, and many new ones have been introduced. The design has been modernized, and many color illustrations have been added.

Seized: A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Scoundrels and Pirates While Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled WatersSeized takes readers behind the scenes of the multibillion dollar maritime industry, as he recounts his efforts to retrieve freighters and other vessels from New Orleans to the Caribbean, from East Germany to Vladivostak, Russia, and from Greece to Guatemala. He resorts to everything from disco dancing to women of the night to distract the shipyard guards, from bribes to voodoo doctors to divert attention and buy the time he needs to sail a ship out of a foreign port without clearance. Seized is adventure nonfiction at its best.

Gold Rush Port:The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's WaterfrontJames P. Delgado
Described as a "forest of masts," San Francisco's Gold Rush waterfront was a floating economy of ships and wharves, where a dazzling array of global goods was traded and transported. Drawing on excavations in buried ships and collapsed buildings from this period, Delgado re-creates San Francisco's unique maritime landscape, shedding new light on the city's remarkable rise from a small village to a boomtown of thousands in the three short years from 1848 to 1851.

Ship Construction, Sixth EditionDavid J. Eyres
A comprehensive text for students of naval architecture, ship building and construction, and for professional Naval Architects and Marine Engineers as a refresher on developments in ship types, safety and shipyard practices. The book follows the construction of a ship from start to finish. This edition includes a chapter on computer-aided design and manufacture, and the latest international regulations and technological developments.

China Tea ClippersGeorge Frederick CampbellThe history of the China tea clippers is examined, especially their struggle in the 19th century for economic survival in the face of the steamships. It also details advances made in design, hull construction, rigging, sail plans and deck arrangements.

Under Full SailSilent Cinema on the High Seas
Five films that preserve the grandeur and allure of windjammers sailing open waters, photographed in the style of the time.The Yankee Clipper (1927), produced by Cecil B. DeMille, directed by Rupert Julian, restored to the most complete version available since the films release. Recreates the real-life race from FooChow to Boston for the China tea trade. Filmed at sea for six weeks aboard the 1856 wooden square-rigger Indiana with stars William Boyd, Elinor Fair and Frank Junior Coghlan. Organist Dennis James accompanies the film on a 1928 Wurlitzer pipe organ.Around the Horn in a Square Rigger (1933). Filmed by noted sailor/author Alan Villiers documenting the record-breaking 83-day voyage of the 1902 barque Parma from Australia to England in the 1933 Grain Race. Music by Eric Beheim.The Square Rigger (1932), an early sound short filmed as part of Fox's Magic Carpet of Movietone, shows life aboard the schoolship Dar Pomorza, The White Frigate. Built in 1909 as the Prinzess Eitel Friedrich, it was ceded from Germany to France as a prize of World War I, and later donated to the Polish State Maritime School. Ship Ahoy (1928), a record of the conditions and traditions of the North American lumber trade featuring an unidentified schooner equipped with a fore and aft rig as it transports lumber along the East Coast. Music by Eric Beheim. The collection is rounded off with a ten-minute sequence fromDown to the Sea in Ships (1922) documenting an authentic whale hunt from the 1878 wooden ship Wanderer out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The camera-men risk their lives to capture unchanged practices. Music by Dennis James.

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1800s San Francisco

Sea Captains

The captains listed below sailed into and out of the Port of San Francisco during the mid-to-late 1800s. During 1849 and 1850 alone, more than 600 Captains sailed from Eastern seaport towns into San Francisco Bay. Many of the Captains lived in San Francisco and many also made their home in Oakland or Contra Costa County during the late 1800s.

(Note: The * indicates that these Captains were listed in the San Francisco Directory.)